Content by Subject 2025/26

Council & its committees

All changes to legislation made by Council and its committees and published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year.

  • Council

    • Divisional Boards, p4
    • Employment of University Staff, p2
    • Financial Regulations, p4
    • People Committee, p4
    • Sabbatical leave and dispensation from prescribed duties, p2

  • General Purposes Committee of Council

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Congregation

All resolutions, legislative proposals, changes to regulations and other business submitted to Congregation and published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year.

  • Resolutions

    • Space allocations:
      • Eagle House to the Department of Engineering Science (announced 25 Sep: p7)
      • Littlegate House to the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics (announced 25 Sep: p8)
      • Old Boys High School to the School of Geography and the Environment, for occupation by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (announced 25 Sep: p8) (corrigendum 2 Oct: p14)
      • St Cross Building to the Faculty of Law (announced 25 Sep: p8)

  • Legislative Proposals

    • Changes to Congregation Regulations 3 of 2002: Religious Services and Sermons (announced 25 Sep: p7)
    • Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, Sub-faculties, Departments and the Department for Continuing Education (announced 25 Sep: p6)
    • Statute XIV: Employment of Academic and Support Staff by the University (announced 25 Sep: p6)

  • Other Congregation business

    • Clerks of the Market, admission (announced 2 Oct: p15)
    • Pro-Vice-Chancellors, admission (announced 2 Oct: p15)
    • Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2025 (announced 25 Sep: p6)

Register of Congregation

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff added to the Register of Congregation during the 2025/26 academic year. They are listed in order of the issue in which their name appears. A full listing of the whole Register of Congregation (as it stands at a particular date) is published in Hilary term each year.

  • Michaelmas term
    • 25 Sep, p5
    • 2 Oct, p14

Degree by Resolution

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff awarded an MA by resolution during the 2025/26 academic year. They are listed by the date of the Gazette issue in which the resolution was announced. Single sign-on login is required to read these notices*:

  • Michaelmas term

    • 25 Sep, p6

Elections

The following is a list of elections held during the 2025/26 academic year as published in the Gazette. They are listed by category and then by notices of vacancies, nominations published and results. Further information about elections within the University of Oxford can be found on the Elections website.

  • Elections by Congregation
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  • Divisional Board Elections

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  • Faculty Board Elections

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Notices

Consultative and general notices published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Consultative notices

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  • General notices

    • MSc in Clinical Embryology (dissertation deadline date), p16 

Appointment-related notices

All notices relating to the appointment and recognition of distinction of staff and visiting professors at the University published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Appointments and reappointments

    • Statutory Professorships and other senior positions

      • Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) (Freya Johnston), p17
      • Headship of the Department of Education (Leon Feinstein), p20
      • Professorship of Geography (Robert Hilton), p20
      • Headship of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (Kenneth Nelson), p20
      • Professorship of Transplantation (Fadi Issa), p19

    • Other appointments, reappointments and conferments of title

      • Humanities
      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences
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      • Social Sciences

  • Visiting Professorships

    • Statutory Professorships

      • Winant Visiting Professor of American Government (Emily Zackin), p20

    • Other visiting professorships

      • Humanities
      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences
      • Social Sciences
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  • Recognition of Distinction

    • Successful candidates 2025, p21

  • Electoral Boards, Advisory Committees and Selection Committees

    • Electoral Boards

      • Professorship of Environmental Geography, p22

    • Advisory Committees

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    • Selection Committees

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Lectures

All lecture notices published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

  • Termly supplements

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  • Other lecture notices

    • Michaelmas term

Events & exhibitions

All notices relating to musical and other events and exhibitions published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • University Sermons

    • Michaelmas term: p16

  • Musical and other events

    • Christ Church (2 Oct, p24)
    • Exeter (2 Oct, p24)
    • St Hilda's (2 Oct, p24)

  • Exhibitions

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Student-related notices

All notices relating to students published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

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  • Supplications for higher degrees*

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  • Viva voce examinations*

    • Michaelmas term

  • Prizes awarded to graduate students*

    • British and European History 1700–1850, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Early Modern History 1500–1700, MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • Economic and Social History, MSc (Faculty of History), p23
    • History, MSt/MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • History of Science, Medicine and Technology
      • MSc (Faculty of History), p23
      • MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • History of War, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, MSt/MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • Medieval History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • MSc in Migration Studies, MSc (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), p23
    • Modern British History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Modern European History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, MSc (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), p23
    • Women’s, Gender and Queer History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23

  • Prizes, grants and funding offered

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College notices

All notices relating to memorial services, obituary notices and the election of staff in colleges, halls and societies published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Obituaries

    • Merton (2 Oct, p28)
    • St Hilda’s (2 Oct, p28)

  • College elections

    • St Hugh's, Principal (2 Oct, p27)

  • Memorial services

    • Keble

      • Professor Vincent Gillespie, 2 Oct, p27

* certain student-related content published in the Gazette can only be read online by current University staff or students, because it is covered by a prohibition on publishing outside the EU under data protection legislation